Wilkes County emergency officials are asking tractor operators to be safe following three tractor accidents in the past four days, two of which were deadly.

The latest incident happened at 2:15 p.m. Friday on Pruitt Brothers Langford Road in North Wilkesboro. The man, who wasn't identified, was pronounced dead at the scene. EMS officials said the initial report was a man struck under a tractor.

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On Thursday, a person was flown to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center hospital after a tractor overturned on Cardinal Lane in Rhonda, EMS officials said.

And then on Monday, a retired North Wilkesboro police officer was killed after a chain broke and hit him in the head, Wilkes County deputies told news partner the Elkin Tribune.

Emergency officials said they don't yet know what led to Friday's incident.

Another person was killed in a tractor accident in July, EMS officials said.